Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-15

spite of the express provision of the Fed
eral Constitution and the Statutes of Con-
gress empowering the Executive Of any
State only to fill q vacancy in the Office OF
Senator by a temporary appointment "un-
ill the next meeting Of the Legislature.
The mere fact that the State Constitution
says that the Legislature shall do no
business except that embraced IN
the proclamation amounts TO
naught where the election ola Senator, OF
which Congress has exclusive control, Is
pending. The Governor by his appoint
ment of Mr.. Lucas and the failure to men
ton the Senatorship in his call, has merely
invited a conflict Of authority between
himself and the Legislature, the outcome
of which can scarcely be doubted IL
seems to us that the Governors Overwean-
ing desire to select o Senator to suit him
self is leading him into political plumbers
that we fear will oblige him to take q long
adieu of public life in 1ss9.-FdirmOHt
IRder.
Not a single charge of undue influence
or improper use of money by Mr.. Camden
has been sustained; not a single undeme-
cratic vote during his term in the Senate
has been pointed out; every allegation
against him as a public man or private CIT
izen has fallen to the ground. The trouble
was, from the beginning, that others want
ed to warm his seat in the Senate, and to
do this they must first destroy his fair
name and thus put him out of the way
GhdrIestOVR Free Press.
The manly effort of a portion of n Leg
~islature to turn the State over to the RepuD-
lieans in 1888 must doubtless meet the
hearty approval of everybody in the State
except Democrats. When a body OF men
have been chosen for a certain purpose and
expected to accomplish that for which they
have been chosen, there should be some
sound and excellent reason why the duty
was not performed. Why twelve "patrl-
OTIS" have blocked legislation and dlsor-
ganized the party to which they prOfessed
to belong, if not apparent before, surely Is
manifest even TO fools now.
The appointment of the leader OF the
~disorganizers to the Office of United States
Senator strips the thin covering of patriot
ism and boosted efforts Of public good from
the scene and lays bare the scheme which
was nothing more nor less than a plot for
spoils. The principle for which
they pretended to fight is, if never be-
fore, now shown in all its enOrmity and
nOne can be so simple as not to see it
The Democratic party must be disOrgan-
lied and defeated, the public money must
be s~quandered in extra sessions; the bust
ness of the State made to languish and suf-
fer injury because twelve Democrats under
took to dictate to thirty-eight and elect
eithera man of their choice or put the APP
pointing power in the hands of the Gov
ernor under a compact with the leader OF
the twelve that that leader should receive
the reward of his party treacheIy.
The power, therefore, that was the peO-
pies has been put in the hands of n mnn.
This conduct is such that Democrats can
not afford to hush their mouths and sit in
silence. 1t deserves to be ~placarded over
the country and the ~rottenness exposed.
We learn that some Of the twelve who
have done so much fol Mr.. Lucas and so
little for the State, express surprise at Gov
ernOr Wilson's appointment. Is this to be
taken seriously, OriS it a jOke?-G rcenbrier
Independent.